Author: Pat OyelolaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789781730016
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Everyman's Guide to Nigerian Art
Author: Pat OyelolaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789781730016
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Every Man's Guide to Nigerian Art
Author: Pat OyelolaBen Enwonwu
Author: Sylvester Okwunodu OgbechiePublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580462358
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
An intellectual biography of a modern African artist and his immense contribution to twentieth-century art history. The history of world art has long neglected the work of modern African artists and their search for forms of modernist expression as either irrelevant to the discourse of modern art or as fundamentally subservient to the established narrative of Western European modernist practice. With this engaging new volume, Sylvester Ogbechie refutes this approach by examining the life and work of Ben Enwonwu (1917-94), a premier African modernist and pioneer whose career opened the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of African art. In the decades between Enwonwu's birth and death, modernization produced new political structures and new forms of expression inAfrican cultures, inspiring important developments in modern African art. Within this context, Ogbechie evaluates important issues such as the role of Anglo-Nigerian colonial culture in the development of modern Nigerian art, andEnwonwu's involvement with international discourses of modernism in Europe, Africa, and the United States over a period of five decades. The author also interrogates Enwonwu's use of the radical politics of Negritude ideology to define modern African art against canonical interpretations of Euro-modernism; and the artist's visual and critical contributions to Pan Africanism, Nigerian nationalism, and postcolonial interpretations of African modernity. First and foremost an intellectual biography of Ben Enwonwu as a modern African artist, rather than an exhaustive critical exploration of the discourse of modernism in African art history or in modern art in general, Ben Enwonwu situates the artist historically and interprets his work in ways that surpass traditional discourse around the canon of modern art. Sylvester Ogbechie is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Encounter Images in the Meetings Between Africa and Europe
Author: Mai PalmbergPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064783
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Positive images of Africa contrast with negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. This selection of papers debate the images and stereotypes of Africa.
Nigerian Artists
Author: Janet L. StanleyPublisher: Hans Zell Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art BranchPublisher: G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Contemporary Nigerian Arts and Artists
Author: S. J. Timothy-AsobelePublisher:
ISBN: 9789780576561
Category : Art, Nigerian
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Nigeria Magazine
Author: USO
Author: Nigeria
Author: Robert A. MyersPublisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description